RE:In Indonesian/Malay called beruang madu honey bear.

so madu is honey?

many 'honey/sweet(ness) words, in many languages are M(vowel) (soft constinent) (vowel)--
mel, mej, med, mad,
even english as the old word mead (honey wine).
the sweetness shows up in Melody, Melitits (diabities), and hundreds of other words.

(and it occurs to me, while i know english uses HONEY- i have no idea why we don't have a Mel/med/mad/ for sweetness. and instead have honey?)


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